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Jennifer Rosner on Crafting Evocative Historical Fiction That Honors the Past

Jennifer Rosner on Crafting Evocative Historical Fiction That Honors the Past

Once We Were Home">Natalie Jenner Talks to the Author of Once We Were Home

By Natalie Jenner and Jennifer Rosner | March 16, 2023

What Lies Beneath: The Deep Geology of Prose

What Lies Beneath: The Deep Geology of Prose

Elizabeth McKenzie on Writing About Her Geologist Mother

By Elizabeth McKenzie | March 14, 2023

The Transcendence of the Clock: On Finding Clarity in Fiction and in Life

The Transcendence of the Clock: On Finding Clarity in Fiction and in Life

Samuel Ligon Explores the Function of Time in Worlds Real and Imagined

By Samuel Ligon | March 13, 2023

Encounters with a Mad King: Jac Jemc on Finding a Story While Lost in Research

Encounters with a Mad King: Jac Jemc on Finding a Story While Lost in Research

“I needed to know everything so I could carefully carve out the something I wanted the book to be about.”

By Jac Jemc | March 7, 2023

In Praise of the Campus Novel: Daisy Alpert Florin on Fiction and Self-Discovery

In Praise of the Campus Novel: Daisy Alpert Florin on Fiction and Self-Discovery

“A campus is a cauldron, a swirling pot of people learning about themselves.”

By Daisy Alpert Florin | February 14, 2023

How Not to Lose Hope: Alternate Histories and the Real World

How Not to Lose Hope: Alternate Histories and the Real World

Paz Pardo on Living in a World of Continuing Calamities

By Paz Pardo | February 14, 2023

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Marisa Crane on the Finer Points of Experimental Fiction

Marisa Crane on the Finer Points of Experimental Fiction

“The experimental form should relate to and enhance the themes and narrative—not distract from it.”

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Dan Kois on Youthful Nostalgia and Rediscovering the Craft of Fiction

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Vintage Contemporaries">Erica Eisdorfer Talks to the Author of Vintage Contemporaries

By Erica Eisdorfer | January 17, 2023

Singer-Songwriter Margo Price on Finding Truth and Joy in Writing a Memoir

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Maybe We'll Make It">Maggie Smith Talks to the Author of Maybe We'll Make It

By Maggie Smith | January 12, 2023

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By Sean Adams | January 11, 2023

Suzanne Berne Asks Us, Why Write a Novel, Why Read a Novel, and Why Now?

Suzanne Berne Asks Us, Why Write a Novel, Why Read a Novel, and Why Now?

“I believe in the capacity of the novel, in its formal demonstration of the possibility for greater insight and compassion over time.”

By Suzanne Berne | January 10, 2023

On Transforming Oral History Into Historical Fiction

On Transforming Oral History Into Historical Fiction

Aanchal Malhotra Tells the Story of Indian Partition

By Aanchal Malhotra | January 4, 2023

Crow, Donkey, Poet: Sumana Roy on the Useless in the Poetic

Crow, Donkey, Poet: Sumana Roy on the Useless in the Poetic

“Through difference and repetition, the useless is smuggling in poetry and the poetic in language.”

By Sumana Roy | December 21, 2022

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